Butter-cutting machine.



E. s. WELLS BUTTER CUTTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED 00'1'. 31,1908.

925,542. Patented June'22,1909.

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'BUTTER CUTTING MACHINE. APBLIOATION FILED 001*. 31, 1908.

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EDWARD SAMUEL WELLS, OF IPSWICH, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA.

BUTTER-CUTTING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 22, 1909.

Application filed October 31, 1908. Serial No. 460,558.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD SAMUEL WELLS, a sub'ect of the King'of the United Kingdom of reat Britain and Ireland, resident of Mofi'att street, Ipswich, in the State of Queensland, Commonwealth of Australia, have invented a certain new and useful Improved Butter-Cutting Machine, of which the and lowered by w volving in the framework underneath the following is a specification.

This inventlon relates to a butter cutting .machine its object being to expeditiously base plate and by chains or ropes fixed to the whee s and to the base plate, traveling over grooved ulleys in the top of the frame.

h To fu y describe the invention reference is now made to the drawings in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of the machine. Fig. 2 side elevation of same. Fig. 3 plan of base plate and posts of frame. Fig. 4 detail on enlarged scale of raising and lowering gear. Fig. 5 pers ective view of machine. Fig. 6 plan 0 frame showing the cross wires on to Fig. 7 perspective view of butter plate siiowing slots spaced correspondingly to the Wires. Fig. 8section of top frame showing chamfered edges. Fig. 9 a plan view of wire strainers on enlarged scale. Fig. 1 O a perspective view of wire strainers'on enlarged scale. Fig. 1 1 is an elevation of one of the guiding bars for the transverse wire 19; Fig. 12 is an end view showing said "uiding ,bar in position and with the bloclr 22 thereon; Fig. 13 is a bottom view of the block; Fig. 14 is a detailed view showing the bolt to which the wire 19 is secured.

The reference numerals indicate like parts in all figures.

- 1 are four vertical posts, mortised or otherwise fixed to which is the top frame 2 across this frame are stretched stationary cuttin wires 3 and 3 only some-of which are figure these'wlres are sunk in slots just below the surface of thetop frame as seen in Figs. 1 and quired weight.

' 2 and are fastened at one end to a rod 23 screwed to the frame on one side and to wire strainers 24 on the other side. As shown in Fig. 8 the bottom edges of the frame 2 are chamfered so as to guide the block of butter in the event of the said block not squarely set upon the butter plate.

A is a base plate sliding u and down be,- tween the posts and fixed t ereon are two under cut rails 4: to the underside of. the

base plate is screwed a guide bar 4 haits ends turned down at rght angles whic im inge against the sides 0 the posts as seen in 1g. 2. a a is a pointer and 5 a graduated scale for ad ust1ng the size of butter blocks to re- 6 is a butter plate preferably of marble provided with -V sha ed slots 6, which is screwed down to a be' plate 7 on the underside of which are fastened guide rails 7 which slide between the rails 4* of the base plate: the V shaped slots allow the stationary wires to pass right through the block of butter.

8 is an axle revolving in cross pieces 9 provided with necessary collars to keep same in position, 11 are grooved pulleys, and 12 a milled edge Wheel ke ed to axle, the latter being for regulating t 1e out and 14 a handle for revolvin the axle. 15 wire ropes attached to pu leys 11 traveling over grooved pulleys 16 in top frame, the other ends of which are attached to the base plate 4 by which it is raised and lowered.

17 is a channel bar screwed to top of frame through the slot of 'which asses a square shanked screw pin 18 to which is fastened a lateral cutting wire 19 strained across thetop frame by the screw pin inserted through the slot 20 of the channel bar and a screwed knob 21, screwed up against a sliding block 22.

In using the invention a block of butter from a butter box is placed upon the butter plate which is then raised to the position of .the lateral cutting wire which is drawn across the block cutting off a shaving and leaving the top perfectly level, it is then further raised until the pointer on the base plate points to the res ective marks on the graduated scale, the ateral cuttin wire isthen drawn or ushed through the )utter cutting the block aterally, it having been cut vertically by the stationary wires on top of frame,

the small blocks or prints are then removed and the base plate further raised for the next out.

Having now described my invention, what 5 I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is a I 1. A butter cutting machine comprising a supporting frame, a top frame supported therein, said top frame having its center open, Wires carried by said top frame and ex- -tending across the opening, the bottom edges of said to frame around the opening being chamfere to guide the butter block, a supporting plate within the supporting frame, and means for moving the late vertlcally.

2. A butter cutting mac ine comprising a supporting frame, a top frame therein, slotted channel bars carried by said top frame, blocks sliding in said channel bars, a

lateral outtin wire carried by said blocks, and a vertica ly movable buttersupporting frame.

3. A butter cutting machine comprising a supporting frame, a top frame therein,

slotted channel bars carried by said frame, blocks sliding in said channel bars, screw pins carried in said blocks, a lateral cutting wire fastened to said pins, screw knobs on said pins and a vertically movable butter supporting plate.

4. In an improved butter cutting machine, the combination of a wooden frame, a base plate, a butter plate provided with shaped slots across the face, a bed plate, rails on they underside of same, sliding between rails onso the base late, an axle revolving in bearers beneath t 1e base plate, grooved wheels keyed to said axle, ropes attached to said wheels, traveling over grooved pulleys in the top frame and fastened to the base plate, said 40 I wheels and ropes adapted to raise and lower the base plate, a milled edge wheel keyed to said axle and an arresting pawl ivoted to said frame as herein described and illustrated by drawings.

EDWARD SAMUEL WELLS.

\Vitnesses E. GARLAND ABELL, CLARA AB 

